Curtain-hook.



MILTON SCI'INAIER, NEW YORK, N. Y.

CURTAIN-HOOK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 17, 1914.

Application filed May 20, 1913. Serial No. 768,741.

. To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MILTON SGHNAIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Hooks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates toimprovements in curtain hooks, and the same has for its ob ject more particularly to provide a simple, efficient and reliable hook for bath and other curtains which may be readily applied to the curtain supporting ring, pole or other support, and which will be capable of duly supporting the weight of a curtain when wet, or subjected to unusual strain.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a curtain hook which is open at its top to permit of the hook passing over or by the arms or members which serve to support the ring from which the curtain is suspended.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide acurtain hook which may in the first instance be easily applied to a curtain, and then easily and securely attached. to the curtain supporting ring, pole or other support. 7

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a curtain hook comprising two members or sides having their upper ends separated, and a locking and reinforcing member which serves to secure said members or sides duly secured together.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a side view, partly broken out, showing a curtain support, and a portion of a curtain suspendedtherefrom by means of hooks constructed according to, and embodying my said invention; Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail face view showing one of the suspending hooks; the same being shown in its normal position in full lines, and in its strained position in dotted lines; Fig. 3 isan edge view of the hook as seen at Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail transverse section showing the construction of, the ends of the ring or pole supporting arms, and the posit1on inwhich a hook is normally supported upon ring or pole.

In said drawings 10 designates the hook as a whole, formed preferably of a single piece of wire and comprising a pair of oppositely arranged segment-shaped side members 11, 11 connected together at their lower ends by a loop portion 12. The upper ends of said sidemembers are free and arranged in separated relation; relating to each other.

The end of the member 11 has a portion 13 y of its free end doubled upon itself and conformed to the side of its side member, and :the corresponding portion 13 of the side member 11 which is considerably longer than the doubled portion 13 of the side member 11, is also doubled upon its respective side member 11 The doubled end of the side member 11 is conformed to the side of said side member preferably to below the middle thereof, and is thenbent across the body of said curtain hook to the opposite side member 11 to form a horizontal transverse locking and reinforcing member 1a,

which has its extreme end provided with a hook member 15 which loosely embraces the outer surface of said side member 11.

The upper opposing free ends of the side members 11, 11 are doubled upon them-' selves in order to strengthen the free ends of the hook, and at the same time provide a greater bearing surface which rests upon the curtain supporting ring. Further, the doubled ends of said side members serve to prevent the same twisting upon the ring, and maintain the same in due transverse position transversely upon the curtain supporting ring or support to insure the separated ends passing freely by the flattened ends of the arms or members which support the curtain ring 18.

The operation of the hook is as follows: In order to attach a curtain to its supporting ring in pole the hook 15 is first wholly disengaged of its embrace with the side member 11. This may be most conveniently and readily accomplished by pressing the hook end of the transverse locking member 14: downwardly until the hook 15 thereof is disengaged from said side member 11. Hereupon the doubled end of the side n1ember 11 is passed through the eyelet 16 in the upper edge of the curtain 17, and the curtain permitted to enter the looped portion 12. The free ends of hook 10 are then separated and sprung into position over the curtain supporting pole or ring 18 by forcing the free ends of the side members 11., 11*, over said pole or support. Hereupon the free ends of the side members 11,-1.1, are pressed together sufficiently to permit of the hook 15 of the transverse locking and reinforcing member being reengaged with the outer surface of the side member 11 whereby said hook will be securely attached to said support, and at the same time the.

curtain so secured within the bottom or looped portion 12 of said hook as to pre vent of its being released from said hook.

' A feature of my improved hook is the peculiar action of the transverse locking and reinforcing member 1 1, the same being so constructed and arranged that its hook portion will be maintained constantly bearing against the outer surface of the side member 11 during the vertical distention of the hook which occurs when the hook is subjected to unusual weight or strain due to any cause. hen the hook is subjected to such strain the tendency of the hook 10 is to become elongated vertically, and the free ends of the hook to become separated further relating to each other as the same side downwardly over the rounded edge of the curtain supporting ring or pole. As the hook becomes so elongated, and its free ends so separated, the portion 13 extending from the end of the side member 11 will be caused to move inwardly and the hook end 15 of said transverse member 14 to move upward, as indicated in dotted lines at Fig. 2, and follow the contour of the outer surface of said side member 11 throughout the changes in form of said side member without interrupting its engagement therewith, and thus hold the two side members 11, 11, connected in such manner as to prevent their free ends becoming separated so far as to permit of the hook as a whole slipping from the curtain supporting ring or pole. As soon as the unusual weight or strain upon the hook 10 is relieved the side members 11, 11, and the transverse locking and reinforcing member 14 will at once resume their normal positions as indicated in full lines at Fig. 2.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A curtain hook comprising a segmentshaped body consisting of a pair of side members having two of their corresponding ends united, and a member rigidly secured to and extending from one of said side members and slidably embracing the other of said side members, substantially as specified.

2. A curtain hook comprising a segmentshaped body consisting of a pair of side members having two of their corresponding ends united and their opposing ends free and separated from each other and a transverse member secured to one of said side members, and slidably embracing the other of said side members, substantially as specified.

3. A curtain hook comprising a segmentshaped body consisting of a pair of side members having two of their corresponding ends united, and their other ends free and separated, and a locking member secured to one of said side members and extending across the body of said hook near its middle and embracing the other of said side members, substantially as specified.

at. A curtain hook comprising a segmentshaped body consisting of a pair of side members having two of their corresponding ends united, and a transverse member having one end secured to one of said side members and its other end slidably embracing the other of said side members, substantially as specified.

5. A curtain hook comprising a segment-V shaped body consisting of a pair of curved side members united at two of their corresponding ends, and separated at their opposite ends, a member extending from the free end of one of said side members and conforming thereto for a part of its length and having its end extending across said body, and a hook provided at the free end of said member loosely embracing-the other of said side members, substantially as specified.

6. A curtain hook comprising a segmentshaped body consisting of a pair of side members, a depending loop-section uniting two of the corresponding ends of said side members, and a locking member having one end rigidly secured to one of said side members, and having its other end free and slidably engaging the other of said side members, substantially as specified.

7. A curtain hook comprising a segment shaped body consisting of a pair of curved side members, a depending loop section uniting two of the corresponding ends of said side members, and the other ends of said side members free and separated from each other, one of said side members having its end doubled upon itself and conformed thereto for a part of its length, and the other of said side members having its end doubled and folded upon itself and a portion thereof extending transversely across said segmentshaped body to the other of said side members, and a hook provided at the end of said transversely extending member loosely embracing said last mentioned side member, substantially as specified.

8. A curtain hook formed of a single piece of wire comprising a substantially circular body, comprising a pair of curved side members, a depending loop section uniting two of the corresponding ends of said side memhere, one of said side members having its free end doubled upon itself and conformed to said side member, and the other of said side members having its end doubled upon itself and conformed to its side member to a point below the middle of said side member, and then extending transversely across said circular body to the opposite side member, and a hook provided at the free end 10 of said transversely extending member loosely embracing said opposite side member, substantially as specified.

Signed at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, this twentyfourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

MILTON SGHNAIER.

Witnesses:

O. H. GARDNER, ADAM RAINEY.

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